S2 is literally the same game as CoP, with a handful of features not working properly or missing
i have specifically replayed CoP a few weeks before S2 came out to see the difference
its just that the map is several times bigger, so all the problems CoP had were exacerbated in S2, you didnt care too much about the shitty loot/stashes in CoP, since you can 100% the game in 20 hours
most of you niggers dont even remember playing vanilla and think that analmeme and its offspring was the default experience, the rest are butthurt russians for whom its a political thing
the problem with S2 isnt that it changed too much from the trilogy, its that it didnt change enough